Chemical Industry Medal
The Chemical Industry Medal is an annual US award for industrial chemists of the American section of the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI). It has been awarded since 1933 and, along with the Perkin Medal , was considered one of the highest awards in the US chemical industry as early as the 1940s.
Until 1932 it was called the Grasselli Medal. This was awarded for outstanding publications presented to the society. Prize winners were:
- 1920 Allen Rogers
- 1922 WH Fulweiler
- 1924 BD Saklatwaller
- 1925 ER Berry
- 1926 Charles R. Downs
- 1928 Harold J. Rose
- 1929 Bradley Stoughton
- 1930 Per K. Frolich
- 1931 LV Redman
- 1932 GL Clark
The name was changed because the Grasselli family had sold their chemical company to Du Pont in 1928. The Chemical Industry Medal should complement the Perkin Medal and be awarded to a person who had made a significant contribution from chemical research to industry ( making a valuable application of chemical research to industry ), whereby contributions in the public interest should be preferred. In 1945 this was changed to the effect that the laureate should have provided outstanding services for applied chemistry (English: conspicuous service to applied chemistry ).
While the Perkin Medal is awarded by the SCI for inventions in applied chemistry , many chemical industry leaders and managers are among the recipients of the Chemical Industry Medal, and the annual banquet at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York is considered a social event in the world Chemical industry.
Award winners
- 1933 James G. Vail , Pennsylvania Quartz
- 1934 Floyd G. Metzger , Air Reduction
- 1935 Edward R. Weidlein , Mellon Institute
- 1936 Walter S. Landis , American Cyanamid
- 1937 Evan J. Crane , Chemical Abstracts
- 1938 John VN Dorr , Dorr
- 1939 Robert E. Wilson , Standard Oil of Indiana, PanAmerican Petroleum
- 1941 Elmer K. Bolton , Dupont
- 1942 Harrison Howe , ACS
- 1943 John Grebe , Dow
- 1944 Bradley Dewey , Dewey & Almy
- 1945 Sidney D. Kirkpatrick , Chemical & Metallurgical
- 1946 Willard H. Dow , Dow
- 1947 George W. Merck , Merck
- 1948 James A. Rafferty , Union Carbide
- 1949 William B. Bell , American Cyanamid
- 1950 William M. Rand , Monsanto
- 1951 Ernest W. Reid , Corn Products
- 1952 JR Donald , Crawford H. Greenewalt , Dupont
- 1953 Charles S. Munson , Air Reduction
- 1954 Ernest H. Volwiler , Abbot
- 1955 Joseph G. Davidson , Union Carbide
- 1956 R. Lindley Murray , Hooker Electrochemical
- 1957 Clifford Rassweiler , Johns Manville
- 1958 Fred J. Emmerich , Allied
- 1959 Harry B. Mcclure , Union Carbide
- 1960 Hans Stauffer , Stauffer
- 1961 William E. Hanford , Olin Mathieson
- 1962 Kenneth H. Klipstein , American Cyanamid
- 1963 Max Tishler , Merck
- 1964 Leland I. Doan , Dow
- 1965 Ralph Connor , Rohm and Haas
- 1966 Monroe E. Spaght , Shell
- 1967 Chester M. Brown , Allied
- 1968 Harold W. Fisher , Standard Oil of New Jersey
- 1969 Charles B. McCoy , Dupont
- 1970 William H. Lycan , Johnson & Johnson
- 1971 Carroll A. Hochwalt , Thomas & Hochwalt, Monsanto
- 1972 Jesse Werner , Gaf
- 1973 Ralph Landau , Scientific Design
- 1974 Carl A. Gerstacker , Dow
- 1975 Leonard P. Pool , Air Products
- 1976 Harold E. Thayer , Mallinckrodt
- 1977 F. Perry Wilson , Union Carbide
- 1978 Jack B. St. Clair , Shell
- 1979 Irving Shapiro , Dupont
- 1980 Edward Donley , Air Products
- 1981 Thomas W. Mastin , Lubrizol
- 1982 H. Barclay Morley , Stauffer
- 1983 Paul F. Orrefice , Dow
- 1984 James Affleck , American Cyanamid
- 1985 Louis Fernandez , Monsanto
- 1986 Edward G. Jefferson , Dupont
- 1987 Edwin C. Holmer , Exxon
- 1988 Vincent L. Gregory Jr., Rohm and Haas
- 1989 Richard E. Heckert , Dupont
- 1990 George J. Sella Jr., American Cyanamid
- 1991 Dexter F. Baker , Air Products
- 1992 H. Eugene McBrayer , Exxon
- 1993 WH Clark , Nalco
- 1994 Keith R. McKennon , Dow Corning
- 1995 Robert D. Kennedy , Union Carbide
- 1996 John W. Johnstone Jr., Olin
- 1997 J. Roger Hirl , Occidental Chemical
- 1998 Edgar S. Woolard Jr., Dupont
- 1999 J. Lawrence Wilson , Rohm and Haas
- 2000 Vincent A. Calarco , Crompton
- 2001 William S. Stavropoulos , Dow Chemical
- 2002 Earnest W. Deavenport Jr., Eastman Chemical
- 2003 Whitson Sadler , Solvay
- 2004 Thomas E. Reilly , Reilly Industries
- 2005 Daniel S. Sanders , ExxonMobil & Company
- 2006 Jon M. Huntsman , Huntsman Corporation
- 2007 Raj Gupta , Rohm and Haas
- 2008 Dennis Reilley , Praxair
- 2009 Jeffrey Lipton , Nova Chemicals
- 2010 Michael E. Campbell , Arch Chemicals, Inc
- 2011 J. Brian Ferguson , Eastman Chemical
- 2012 David Weidman , Celanese
- 2013 Andrew Liveris , Dow Chemical
- 2014 Sunil Kumar , International Specialty Products
- 2015 Stephen Pryor , ExxonMobil
- 2016 James L. Gallogly , DuPont
- 2017 Andreas C. Kramvis , Honeywell
- 2018 Cal Dooley , American Chemistry Council
- 2019 Neil Chapman , ExxonMobil
- 2020 Christopher D. Pappas , Trinseo
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Chemical Industry Medal Presented to Howe , Chemical and Engineering News Volume 20, 1942. S. 1506. doi : 10.1021 / cen-v020n022.p1506
- ↑ a b Ralph Landau; Uncaging Animal Spirits: Essays on Engineering, Entrepreneurship, and Economics ; MIT Press, 1994; ISBN 978-0-262-12183-5 ; Page XXVIII.
- ^ EK Bolton, Chemical Industry Medal. Development of Nylon, Ind. Eng. Chem., Volume 34m 1942, pp. 53-58, doi : 10.1021 / ie50385a011
- ^ Mary Ellen Bowden, John Kenly Smith, American Chemical Enterprise: A Perspective on 100 Years of Innovation to commemorate the centennial of the Society of Chemical Industry (American Section), Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia 1994, p. 15
- ^ SCI America Branch on the Chemical Industry Medal
- ↑ Author: Alexander H. Tullo: Chapman to receive SCI medal. In: cen.acs.org. December 3, 2018, accessed December 7, 2018 .
- ↑ Alexander H. Tullo: Former Trinseo CEO Chris Pappas wins SCI medal. In: acs.org. November 17, 2019, accessed December 2, 2019 .